Hi everybody
Many lamps of my Flash Gordon (1981) do not work well. Cleaning them, soldering the sockets and so on sometimes work, sometimes not. So I have decided to replace the sockets which never work correctly.
It sounds easy... but the problem is that on most of the lamp sockets, there is a chunk of solder in which the wire, the socket and the screw are stuck together, so how can i unscrew the screw?
IMG_3240 - chunk (resized).jpg
Trying to melt the solder and suck it out with a desoldering pump or solder wick would doubtlessly be very hard... so I was asking myself if there was an easier way to replace a socket. For example by cutting the "S" holder in its middle (red line on the photo below) and solder a new one there:
IMG_3240 cut (resized).jpg
Anybody has some experience or good ideas?
Thanks for your help and regards
Patrick